California State University system votes to raise tuition
LONG BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) – Trustees for the 23 California State University campuses on Wednesday voted to increase tuition for the nation’s largest four-year public university system by 5 percent despite loud protests from students.
Immigrant whose daughter appealed to pope requests asylum in U.S.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Mexican immigrant whose daughter appealed to Pope Francis three years ago to stop his deportation from the United States requested asylum at a federal court hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Security tightened at UK sites in New York after London attack
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police ramped up security at British sites across the city on Wednesday after an assailant fatally stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament and was then shot and killed by police.
Plan for $7.5 billion Kushner family New York tower faces hurdles: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The family-owned company that until recently was headed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law hopes to turn an aging New York office tower into a signature development that could be worth up to $12 billion, a report said on W…
U.S. charges New York mob suspects with vendetta arson, robbery
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday rounded up seven mob suspects on charges of robbery and a vendetta arson in which a reputed Bonanno crime family associate was accused of having a car torched because its driver cut him off at a traffi…
Mayor of Allentown, Penn., implicated in ex-official’s guilty plea
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The former top administrator of Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal fraud charges, becoming the seventh person convicted in a long-running FBI pay-to-play investigation that includes Mayor Ed Pawlowski.
Illinois bills seek to legalize, tax marijuana sales to adults
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois would legalize marijuana for recreational use by adults and tax it to raise at least $350 million a year for the cash-strapped state under legislation introduced on Wednesday.
Wisconsin man who threatened to kill Obama loses appeal
(Reuters) – A Wisconsin man who wrote on his Facebook page and told several others that he planned to kill then-U.S. President Barack Obama has lost his appeal of his conviction and three-year prison term for threatening the president.
Florida nightclub shooting victims sue gunman’s employer, widow
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – More than 50 victims and survivors of the June 2016 massacre at a Florida nightclub sued the gunman’s employer and widow on Wednesday, blaming them for failing to prevent the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
White man who wanted to harm blacks arrested in New York stabbing: police
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people turned himself in with knives in his pocket at a Manhattan police station on Wednesday, a day after authorities say he fatally stabbed a black man on a city…
